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Course Description

This Build a Business Transformation Vision with Google Cloud course is designed to provide students with learning how the Google Cloud library can address business challenges through three distinct lenses: technology, economics, and security. Technology alone won’t help your business become innovative, so a fourth lens helps you reimagine the way you work by encouraging a culture of innovation. This vision will take into account several cloud adoption phases so that you can mobilize your teams to work in parallel toward business acceleration while reducing costs.

Objectives

Upon completion of the Build a Business Transformation Vision with Google Cloud course, students will be able to:

Differentiate cloud services from traditional on-premises technology through financial and IT lenses.

Describe Google’s multi-layer measures to help ensure customer data is secure, private, and compliant per government or industry regulations.

Describe the requirements to successfully lead a culture of innovation.

Build a cloud-first business transformation vision using a machine learning use case.

Audience

Traditional enterprise business decision makers

Suitable for all management levels leading Product, Operations, Finance, People Management, Sales, Marketing, and Client Management interested in how Google Cloud Platform can support their business transformation.

Prerequisites

Google or gmail account to access course materials

Savvy about own business products/services and industry

Some knowledge of capital expenditure

Topics

Then and Now

Before cloud: what did the business IT backbone look like?

How has IT evolved per the demands of growing businesses?

What is cloud? What is Google Cloud Platform (GCP)?

What are today’s specific business and tech-related needs?

How does the Google Cloud services meet these needs?

Creating Business Value

What are the GCP product categories and what business needs do they address?

How can GCP can enable effective data management?

How can GCP innovatively reduce costs and create value?

What are some business transformation cases that use GCP?

Secure and Compliant

What are today’s cybersecurity challenges?

What is Google’s multi-layer approach to security?

How can a shared security model help to ensure joint business success?

Culture of Innovation

How can using GCP change the way a business works?

How can business decision makers encourage a culture of innovation using specific examples?

What are some ways to practice innovative thinking techniques?

What are core organization-wide innovation principles?

What are some ways to reinforce innovation across an organization?

Workshop: Transformation Vision

Identify an ambitious business challenge

Brainstorm potential solutions

Select the primary solution and determine the required data sets

Categorize high-level steps for implementing the solution

Badges

When you complete the Instructor-Led version of this course, you will be eligible to earn an IBM Training Badge that can be displayed on your website, business cards and social media channels to demonstrate your mastery of the skills you learned here.